Matthias Wagner's Licentiate Seminar

• Thesis title: Software Engineering and the AI Act: Towards Regulatory Compliant AI
• Author: Matthias Wagner, Department of Computer Science, Lund University
• Faculty opponent: Senior Researcher and Adjunct Teacher Håkan Burden, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and Chalmers University of Technology
• Examiner: Professor Björn Regnell, LTH
• Supervisor: Docent Markus Borg, LTH
• Co-supervisor: Professor Per Runeson, LTH
• Date and time: Friday 24 October at 13:15
• Location: E:1406, E-huset, LTH, Klas Anshelms väg 10/Ole Römers väg 3, Lund
• Link to download the thesis at LU Research Portal

Abstract

The European Union AI Act (AIA) aims to facilitate trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, especially for safety-critical use cases. Compliance with this new regulation entails a multitude of legal, technical, and organizational challenges for the providers of affected systems. This regulatory compliance engineering research aims for an empirical exploration and scoping of the AIA requirements that matter from a technical software engineering perspective. We identify affected systems as well as parts that are especially challenging to comply with, and we explore the act's potential industry impact. Moreover, this research aims to study how technological compliance for selected AIA aspects could be facilitated by developing artifacts.